''Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose.''

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), U.S. president. The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928, p. 29, Stanford University (1928).
Reflections on the American character, as exemplified by Prohibition.

''The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress.''